and the possibility of a major financial crisis triggered if the country goes off the fiscal cliff. but right now, it seems like the petraeus scandal is overshadowing everything. the four star general resigned friday after admitting an affair with his biographer, paula broadwell. and investigators are asking why they didn't know about the investigation sooner. >> we received no advance notice. it was like a lightning bolt. the way i found out, i came back to washington thursday night. friday morning, the staff director told me there were a number of calls from press about this. i called david petraeus. >> and are you going to investigate why the fbi didn't notify you before? >> yes, absolutely. this is something that could have had an effect on national security. i think we should have been told. there is a way to do it. >> and several top republicans are demanding petraeus come back

to capitol hill this week to testify before congress over the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. >> i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi before, during and after the attack if general petraeus doesn't testify. so from my point of view, it's absolutely essential that he give testimony before the congress so we can figure out benghazi. >> let me bring in the editor in chief for "reason" magazine matt welch and jackie kucinich. we know the fbi was looking at all of this for a while. officials tell nbc news the investigation started this summer after another woman, jill kell kelley, described as a friend of david petraeus, told another person at the fbi that she's getting threatening e-mail. should the fbi have alerted someone in congress when they started this investigation? >> i don't even know what those protocols are. i would point out that i think that the oversight mechanism that congress, over all issues

of national defense and security, has been broken for some time. i was speaking with a senator who was part of the class fight breakdowns of the post-benghazi debacle. and he described those discussions as being the most useless he's ever heard. so there isn't a lot of information sharing over congress. and i think congress also hasn't been doing its job in constructing proper oversight into what's happening overseas and especially with our intelligence services. i would chalk it up probably as part of that kind of bad information loop. >> i guess the point that dianne feinstein was trying to make is you have an issue that could be one of national security. we haven't really heard either side criticizing so much the affair, per se, or what effect it would have on his job. it's the perception that if you're the head of the cia and you have an affair, that opens you up to all sorts of problems, including blackmail. so what do you think about these

statements that congress should have been notified, that there was possibly the possibility of a national security breach here? >> well, i think those are the question that is they're going to be asking the next couple of days. i don't think this scandal goes away without some congressional probing into this. i really do think -- especially when you have someone like senator feinstein upset about this -- there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about this. there are things that are hard to understand about why this rose to such a level when it turned out there wasn't any national security implications here. it seems like there are just a lot of questions out there that we just don't know the answer to. >> one of the questions that was raised was raised by broadwell herself because in an october 26th speech at the university of denver, she raised some eyebrows when she said this -- now, i don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the cia annex had actually -- had taken a couple

of libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. so that's being vetted. matt, what do you make of that? >> that's a remarkable slip or statement. the cia's denial of this is pretty interesting, too, which is that in january of 2009, president obama signed an executive order outlawing this. so this is obviously baseless. we are in an ultimate fog of war situation here. it's a perfect storm of the fog of war, if we can mix metaphors. you have a presidential election, you have the fbi and the cia kind of going at each other. you have an interagency dispute over the benghazi affair. let's not forget that two weeks ago, "the wall street journal" had a pretty damning article kind of pointing the finger at the cia for the benghazi debacle. a lot of people said then petraeus got thrown under the bus. i don't know if we're going to find out what the hell is going on here for weeks, months and even years. >> lindsey graham says petraeus

better testify this week. his number two is now going to talk about the lead-up and what happened in terms of benghazi. but do you think he'll eventually have to testify? how much pressure do you think there is coming from capitol hill? >> i think there will be quite a bit of pressure. but it's not like his deputy isn't reading the same files that he is. i think they'll get just as informative a briefing from his deputy as you would from petraeus. but there will be pressure from capitol hill, definitely, going forward. we'll have to see what happens. hate to say it. there are a lot of questions out there right now. >> let me bring in senator bernie sanders. always good to see you, senator. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> let me play you first what peter king had to say on "morning joe" today. this is the point he's making. >> he is a key part of the president's foreign policy team, maybe more than any other cia director in recent time. he was going around the world

negotiating various understandings and agreements, i'm aware of that. and to have somewhere out there in such a sensitive position who the fbi thought perhaps could have been compromised or was under the scope of an fbi investigation who may or may not have been having an affair at the time, that had to have been brought to the president or certainly to the national security council. if not, the fbi was derelict in its duty. >> what do you think about what peter king had to say? do you think the president should have been told? should congress have known more? >> i think they should have been told. congress ultimately has oversight over what goes on in the intelligence community. but i just came from a campaign in the state of vermont. and the issue on people's minds is not david petraeus but it's the economy and the middle class. it's how we deal with deficit reduction and the fiscal cliff. i'm going back to washington tomorrow to make sure that we do not do deficit reduction on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. i was very gratified to hear the

other day that harry reid said appropriately that social security has nothing to do with deficit reduction, hasn't added a nichol to the deficit. that's off the table. we have to come up with a plan that's fair, a plan in which the republicans understand that their proposals during the campaign to extend tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country is not what the american people want. there's a big debate on this. i'm confident we have the american people on our side who want deficit reduction but want it done in a way that is fair. >> if you're concerned that this will be a distraction or will provide ammunition for some of those who may disagree with the way you say we should approach dealing with the fiscal cliff and give them some am migs to make more hay, so to speak, about david petraeus, and it could -- >> i don't think so. >> it could make things more difficult. >> i don't think so at all. members of congress and the american people understand that when you have a middle class

which is really suffering, standard of living is going down, when you have the wealthiest people doing phenomenally well, when we have a nation which has the most unequal distribution of wealth and income -- as warren buffett reminds us, the effective tax rates for people on top are pretty low. one out of four profitable corporations in this company are not paying a nickel in taxes, losing over $100 billion a year because corporations and the wealthy people are stashing their money in the cayman long islands. the working people of this country say we have to do deficit reduction but don't cut social security, medicare or medicaid. there are ways to move towards a balanced budget which are fair. >> on the other side, talking about the house and particularly house republican, they view the results of this election a little bit differently. a number of them have suggested that in fact the message of this election in electing a house that is still a gop majority is that they don't want taxes raised on the wealthy.

>> well, i think the objective facts disagree with that assertion. the democrats gained two seats in the senate, did better than anyone dreamed. the democrats gained more votes in the house, gained a few seats in the house. president obama won a resounding electoral college victory and won the popular vote i think by 2.5 million votes. to suggest that the republicans did well in this election makes no sense at all. president obama was very clear. he spoke about this all of the time. if reelected, he is not going to extend tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. he was reelected. many of us ran on a similar program. we were reelected. so i think mr. boehner has got to understand they lost and let the wishes of the majority of the people in this country prevail. but once again, when you have millions of people really struggling in this country economically, when you have some

people out there wanting to cut benefits for disabled veterans and people on social security through a so-called chain cpi, you tell me, if there's any state in this country where people think, we're going to cut benefits for disabled veterans and elderly folks but we're going to give more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaire, i personally don't believe there's one state in this country which agrees with that. that's why i'm very happy to see president obama suggesting he's going to get out of capitol hill. he's going to go on the road and explain that issue to the american people. i hope millions of folks all over this country from blue states, from red states, start calling up capitol hill, their congressmen, their senators and say the wealthiest people in this country have to start paying their fair share of taxes. >> senator, good to see you, as always. thank you so much. happy veterans day. >> you, too. >> jackie, speaking of revenue or tax, let me play for you what

bill crystal said yesterday. >> it won't kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. it really won't, i don't think. i don't understand why republicans don't take obama's offer to freeze taxes for everyone below $250,000. maki after of the republicans voted democrat and half of them live in hollywood. >> are you taking that as an indication that the republicans might blink on this? >> i don't think so. i think there might be a deal worked out at the end. but there are two very different factions of the republican party right now. there's the faction that would be amenable to the deal and somebody like john boehner is going to be working toward a deal. and then there's the other side, the more tea party republicans who aren't going to want to accept this, who aren't going to be okay with raising taxes on anyone. and so i think we are going to see a little bit of a fight here. that said, they don't want to be the ones that cause the country

to go over the cliff. it's going to be an interesting couple of weeks. >> i think fewer people are more representative of the other side. does grover norquist have any clout? >> he has some. can he stop a short-term deal from being done? it's the desire to never cut a dime from the defense or the military budget. i think the question will be -- we will see a deal, will it be another short-term deal that kind of exchanges the stopping of the sequestration cuts of the military spending increases in favor of something like lifting the cap off social security taxes or adding some taxes to the wealthiest families in addition to the ones that are already going to take effect january 1st? will it be not six-month deal, 12-month deal? and the other question is, once that deal is in place, what is

the economy going to look like? it's a pretty broad consensus among economists that if you're going to hike a bunch of taxes, which we're going to do on january 1st, in addition to some spending trims or growth in spending trims, the economy is going to suffer. so there might be a deal and we might be couple of a double-dip recession at the same time. >> matt welch, jackie kucinich, thank you both. susan rice has been mentioned as a possible replacement for secretary of state hillary clinton. but already she has a no vote from lindsey graham. the senator echoing concerns about her role in the handling of the benghazi attack. >> i don't, quite frankly, trust her rendition of benghazi. so i think susan rice would have an incredibly difficult time getting through the senate. i would not vote for her unless there's a tremendous opening up of information explaining herself in a way she has not yet done. his delicious could only come from nature.

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even before the shock of the resignation of cia director david petraeus has worn off, the question about the widely add mired general is this -- what's next? here's his former spokesperson on "today." >> i don't think we've heard the last of david petraeus. he's come back from quite a bit of adversity in the past, parachute accident, being shot, the surge in iraq, trying to turn around afghanistan. so this will just be another significant chang that he and his family will need time and space to work to. >> joining me is howard bragman. good to see you. >> good morning. >> what does david petraeus do, a big sitdown interview with his wife at his side, hold a news conference, lay low? what would you tell him to do? >> the first thing s clean up

your mess at home, okay? that's what you have to do, is try and save your family at this point and save your relationship. that's the first thing. in traditional crisis management terms, he's got a couple of problems. and one of the problems is most of what's happened is going to be classified information. so he can't give the kind of catharsis interview we talk about where he says, here's what happened, here's what i talked about that i shouldn't know. and the second thing people do is they write a book. well, the book is what not him in trouble in the first place. his partner in crime is the one who seems to be benefiting from the book sales right now. but i think his former spokesperson was correct. david loves the glory, he loves the attention. and this is not a gentleman you count out. >> what about paula broadwell? would you suggest she make a statement? she's written a book about him. does she write a book about their relationship? >> again, she has to take care

of her family. they have kids. >> two young kids. >> two young kids. and even saturday night was supposed to be her 40th birthday party, which her husband canceled. she's going to come out of this probably fine in this situation, if she can hold it together with her family. expect now that this book is going to be extraordinarily well and has a resurgence, i think she will do another book. i wouldn't like to see a book about the scandal. i don't think that's what people want to know. >> let me go back to general petraeus. i think it has been interesting that obviously people feel terrible that this happened. but he's so widely respected and he has so many obvious skills that are recognized by people on both sides of the aisle. in a situation like this and given his reputation and the respect in which he's held, will it be very long, do you think, before he takes another position -- not a government position but some sort of -- i

don't know, heading a think tank or whatever it is that he might want to do to be useful given the breadth of knowledge that he has? >> i think we'll see some action next year. but, you know, as always happens, stuff is going to leak out. as people inside congress told me, some friends i talked to, they said there's more to the story than we know. had it just been an affair, he probably wouldn't have resigned. but there were questions about, were classified documents leaking that's starting to hit the news cycle? if that comes out, that's going to damage his message a little, which was teflon before this. he's going to have to get over that. i expect six months to a year, we'll start seeing his next move. >> there's always collateral damage in situations like this. the families, the most obviously. but jill kelley is the woman who allegedly got the harassing e-mails. they trace them to broadwell and that's how it all came out. she hired a crisis management

firm, an attorney, who's defended john edwards, gary condit and jack abramoff. >> we saw how well those worked out. >> this is the statement they issued, we and our family have been friends with general petraeus and his family for over five years. we respect his and his family's privacy and we want the same for us and our children. i don't know what else you could possibly say at a time like this for someone who seems to have been caught in the middle of this. >> i think when the story's written, i think we look at her history of concern for the military. she was not a gossip. she was somebody who was genuinely concerned about security and i think she's a bit of a hero and a whistle-blower in this case. i think she did the right thing. when we know the story, we'll probably end up respecting her for what she did. >> how long before we know the story? in this day and age, doesn't seem to take very long? >> four months, we'll see a big

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jon huntsman says all is not lost for fellow republicans. >> businesses perform best when they're staring in the abyss, when the numbers are really bad. it tends to motivate and stimulate you. you take a fresh look at the world. for the republican party, this is a very important moment. >> let's bring in chris cofenis and john bradner. chris, similar talk about the democratic party in the '70s. is the level of trouble in the gop exaggerated? >> yes and know. after you lose an election, there's always going to be this, the party's in turmoil, the party's dead, kind of talk. where i think it's not and when you bear down and look at the numbers is demographically. they have a huge problem with hispanics, a big problem with women and young voters. the problem is not that they're not just talking to these key

demographics in an effective way. their policies don't reflect what a lot of these dem grams believe and want. >> it seems like kathleen parker actually agrees with you. let me read from her column -- quote, marginize or banish those who in any way make african-americans, gays, single women or other human beings feel unwelcome in a party that cherishes the values of limited government, low taxes and freedom. mitt romney would have been a fine president and might have won the day but for the party he had to please. john, is she right? >> no, i think that's kind of silly, actually. what that sounds too much like is, let's become democrats. i think the truth of the matter is as a party, what we have to do are two things. first of all, sharpen our message. right now, the branding is too much that we're just the people who want to give tax breaks and everything will be all right. blue-collar america does not feel that we understand their lives. they don't understand if we're fighting for them every day and

if we're going to be out there promoting policies that will help their life. the second thing we have to understand is that we don't understand the process as well as seshd. we spent well over $1 billion collectively on republican candidates and did a poor job as a result, even spending all that money -- >> michael barone says part of the problem, while the tea party's produced talent candidates, they're also produced wackos, weirdos and witches. >> the tea partiers say, let's go back to what the founders of this country found this country on, freedom, limited government, more opportunity for everybody. those policies and principles still hold up today. sometimes we've had candidates who haven't done a very good job explaining those. but we should not run away from those principles. >> but you need someone to lead the party. is there someone that you as a democrat -- that you think the

democratic party in general should be wary of as a leader, somebody who could lead the republicans back to power and strength? >> the talk of senator rubio is potentially -- >> we have one of the best teams that are out there. >> let me get chris' thoughts on that first. >> i think senator rubio is a potentially strong, powerful voice in the republican party, could definitely broaden the base and talk to hispanics. but the problem is not who the spokesman is going to be or the spokesperson is going to be, the problem here is their ideas. when you have a republican party that likes to talk -- you just heard, about freedom and liberty, women hear that but then they hear the rhetoric about legitimate rape, they hear the extreme rhetoric on choice. hispanics hear that and they hear the extreme rhetoric on immigration and they say, that's not liberty and freedom, that's the exact opposite. so you cannot reach these key demographics that are going to dominate american politics for decades to come unless you

change your positions. and that is, i think, the tension and the difficulty republicans face. >> is that where the tension is, john? >> well, i don't really think so. i think the biggest thing that we have to do in this party is to take a deep breath and relax and not start to fight among ourselves. the second thing is we have to go back to all the values and principles that have given us success, the reason that we have the house of representatives today, the reason that we had president bush serve two terms, we can go back to where we were having successes, as long as we work together and go back to the message that touches all of america, not just white-collar workers. >> but the house of representatives today, or at least in january, will have fewer republicans than it did. >> yeah, but even in a tough election year for us, we held that. we can move on to 2014 and even see about taking back the senate and then we'll worry about 2016 and taking back the white house. but we're not that far away.

romney did pretty well. three states that were very tight go the other way, he might have even won. >> fewer votes than john mccain, however, which i don't think anyone would have necessarily pretty quicked. are we going to learn something about the republican party when we see how the discussions for the fiscal cliff go? >> you're going to see if the republican party is going to give in terms of tax rates and what are they willing to compromise on in order to get a deal done to avoid the fiscal cliff. if they hold steadfast to their position and basically say, it's our way or the highway, they are going to basically feed into this alienation of these key demographic groups. this is what i think every party goes through in terms of when you lose, especially in a race that you thought you had a chance to win. again, i think the problem here for the republicans is the spokespersons of the party, whether mitch mcconnell or john boehner and whoever it might be at the national level, i'm not sure who else that could be at this point, they have to understand that everybody

listens now. we live in a different media age. and when you talk in very extreme voices or out-of-touch voices, you alienate voters and you don't win them back when it comes election day. >> great to see both of you. thank you. also making news this morning, investigators are trying to figure out the cause of that massive explosion in indianapolis that killed two people and damaged at least 50 homes. it happened saturday night and it was heard several miles away. some residents thought it was an earthquake. officials say 31 homes may have to be demolished. if you can believe it, it's been two weeks since hurricane sandy hit the northeast and almost 90,000 customers are still without power in parts of new york, new jersey, connecticut and west virginia. new york governor andrew cuomo says he'll ask the federal government for at least $30 billion to help in the clean-up. homeland security secretary janet napolitano helped in the

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fewer flights, more expensive tickets and now a pilot shortage. cnbc's brian shactman is here wh with what's moving your money. >> the leo dicaprio, catch me if you can, that's not the case anymore. the hours are brutal, the pay not what it used to be. more than half of u.s. pilots are over the age of 50 and they have to retire at the age of 65. some estimates have been 50,000, 60,000 pilots short over the next couple of decades. now they're increasing the number of hours you need to fly before you can even get a job as a pilot to 1,500, six times the previous number. we're looking at if we stay the same we are now and don't grow the u.s. airline industry, we are talking thousands of pilots short, not just a couple of hundred.

>> and we aanother golden parac for a job that was not so well done. citigroup's former ceo. >> just to give people perspective, the head of goldman sachs pre the financial crisis made $68 million. pandit left some $24 million on the table if he accepts this deal. he basically got fired for this job. the bank's stock value has plummeted. but he isn't necessarily getting all the money that he was necessarily owed. depending on where you live, you can decide, i'm not putting a judgment on it. but it almost got $7 million for a job that the board thinks was not very good. >> cnbc's brian shactman, we'll let it stay at that. thank you so much. here's a list of some restaurants offering freebies

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idea that in a session of congress after the election in 1864, they have to get this amendment passed and they have to do everything they can. >> joining me now is the star of the movie, gloria reuben who plays elizabeth kekley in "lincoln." we'll agree steven spielberg is a genius. but i don't know that even he could have predicted the parallels. you have a president who faced a divided country, a divided congress. you're a social activist. you've been a support of barack obama and the aids movement. you must find the parallels fascinatin fascinating. >> and uncanny. steven's wanted to make this film for about ten years. nobody had any idea that barack obama would be president. to film in richmond, virginia, 150 years after the beginning of the civil war, at a time

specifically when the parallels -- the division in this country politically and still racially are pretty significant, i think the reelection of obama is a great sign of hope for the future and those kind of divisions being resolved. i think we're definitely on the path to having that happen. but the parallels are really unbelievable how timely this film is. >> among the many things it's going to do is make people aware of the person you portrayed. you're getting oscar buzz. congratulations on that. let me play a little clip. >> she needs this for the grand reception. >> you write about her in this book which is coming out as a

companion to the movie. you were asked to write this essay which is very moving and very personal. >> thank you. >> what is it do you think resonated with you about elizabeth today? >> the emotional parallels that i felt with elizabeth, obviously the circumstances are -- you can't even compare. but her sense of who she was, her fortitude, her ability to kind of move beyond all of the extraordinarily difficult things that she went through. her faith, her belief in leadership in the government and looking up to the president and knowing that he would be able to do the right thing for the right reasons, those kinds of things, i think, are parallel. and i think that elizabeth's story is one that is a great american story. a woman who was born into slavery, who was beaten as a child. who was raped and gave birth to a son who created her -- she

bought her own freedom. she became a very successful businesswoman and the first lady's confidant and best friend. >> there is a pivotal scene in the movie that shows you the importance of elizabeth and the process that abraham lincoln went through in his own decision to move forward. >> yes. >> when i went to a screening of the movie and daniel day lewis was asked, did he feel the weight of playing this? going forward, so many people's image of lincoln will be the way he played him. he said it almost made him not take the role. i'm wondering if for you, being on that set, if there was some feeling of real import, beyond the quality entertainment you're going to get from a spielberg movie. did you feel there was something going on here that was more important than that? >> no question about it. just naturally everybody -- every single actor, when everybody walked onto the set,

there was a natural respect, a kind of natural feeling of sacredness, of what we were doing and the stories that need to be told. i totally understand daniel's feelings of kind of -- not trepidation but his hesitancy at the beginning. but for me and elizabeth, i felt such an immediate bond with her that i was so pleased to have the opportunity to portray her in this extraordinary film with such a beautiful message and to have such a poignant part of the story was really quite divine. really a blessing. >> i think rick stingle said it very well. he said, i walked away it from feeling like i knew lincoln, like i had met him. i think that's true of all the characters in this movie. it's going to be in much wider release coming. congratulations on the oscar buzz. thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. today's tweet of the day

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president obama says this is the first veterans day in a decade in which there are no american troops fighting or dying in iraq. the president and first lady paid tribute to our nation's war heroes at arlington national cemetery yesterday. >> a proud nation expresses our gratitude, but we do so mindful that no ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service. for that, we must do more. for that, we must commit this day and every day to serving you as well as you've served us. >> richard lui is here with more on the tributes to vets and on

the state of our fighting forces. >> chances are, you'll meet more veterans than you think today. one in 12 adults are living veterans. henry is one of those. at 19, he charged through a smoke grenade to take out snipers and save his fellow soldiers. 45 years later, the country decorated him with one of its highest military honors. >> when we were called to do it, i would do it all over again. and i would do it today. >> from his silver cross, these observances are roots going back 93 years. a viet ma'am var pinam war pavi dedicated yesterday. >> with each passing day, it becomes more meaningful to me. i feel lucky that i'm an american. and i feel so proud to be an american veteran.

>> he served in world war ii. he retires this year after 36 years in congress. commemorations are spanned the globe. in afghanistan, a commanding general held a moment of silence with soldiers from around the world. today's u.s. veterans number 22 million. they include over 1.5 million women, almost 9% are african-american. 4.5%, latino and .5% asian american or pacific islander. this poem was quoted in a recent defense memo about not forgetting veterans. it says, take up our quarrel with the foe, to you from failing hands we throw, the torch be yours to hold it high. and to remember the over 41 million veterans who have served the country over 238 years. >> unbelievable. thank you so much, richard lui. our little tribute to veterans. you can never do it enough. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing & co." i'm chris jansing.

thomas roberts is up next. >> good morning. the agenda next hour, who knew what and when about cia director retired general david petraeus' extramarital affair? new insights into the why the storied military leader through in the towel and quit a week before testifying on the hill about the benghazi consulate attack. and america is going kicking and screaming toward the fiscal cliff. can president obama strike a compromise with the right? ed rendell and judd gregg join me on their bipartisan campaign to make that happen. and why you have to be so crazy, florida? can the sunshine state get its political act together? charlie crist will be here with that and much more coming up at the top of the hour. into their work,

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